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Alternative Title
Boobrie
Description
A small glazed ceramic horse figurine, painted turquoise, with the texture of its hair and its features depicted in the molding. It has four white socks (markings). The figure is depicted as turning its head back to look behind it.
11. Boobrie. An each-uisg, or green demon water-horse, which haunted the island of Mull, coming ashore to devour both cattle and human beings; but which sometimes assumed the shape of a bull or of an enormous bird, being in all these forms equally treacherous and destructive.
Exhibit label:
BOOBRIE, THE DEMON HORSE OF THE ISLAND OF MULL.
A gift from Frances Newman.
—"Shades of Purple" in Some of Us.
Dimensions (Length x Width x Height in cm)
3.5 x 1 x 4
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Newman, Frances, 1883-1928
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Mythology, Celtic; Horses--Folklore
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection
Source
Horse 11, Boobrie, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Box 3, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m377_i011.jpg